Global Technology: RAISE Summit 2026: all about AI RoI

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Global Technology: RAISE Summit 2026: all about AI RoI

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RAISE Summit 2026: all about AI RoI

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The view from AI builders, enablers, users and investors 13 July 2026

We attended the RAISE Summit in Paris last week, with 9,000 attendees (40% from the Equity

US), including AI start-ups, company executives, investors and policymakers. Speakers Europe

included 1/ AI start ups OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Lovable, Replit, Cognition, AmiLabs, Software

H Company, 2/ Technology leaders across Software and Hardware including Google Frederic Boulan, CFA >>

DeepMind, Stripe, IFS, MongoDB, Oracle, ServiceNow, Synopsys, NVIDIA, AMD, Research Analyst

Broadcom, Cerebras, Nebius, Capgemini, 3/ CIOs from companies including FedEx, MLI+44 (UK)20 7995 7101

Goldman Sachs, Airbus, and 4/ public and private tech investors including Blackrock, frederic.boulan@bofa.com

Coatue, Iconiq or Sequoia. Key takes: 1/ AI adoption is accelerating, with a contraction in Aditya Buddhavarapu, CFA >>

Research Analyst

release cycles illustrating AI RoI. 2/ infrastructure demand expected to continue to grow MLI (UK)

exponentially, 3/ Enterprises now focussing on AI RoI, with a redesign of processes +44 20 7995 7318

aditya.buddhavarapu@bofa.com

required for agentic AI. But KPIs should match business needs (P&L, Balance sheet)

Victor Cheng, CFA >>

rather than AI specific (AI adoption etc). Research Analyst

MLI (UK)

LLMs towards expert levels, booming AI deployments +44victor.cheng@bofa.com20 7996 0272

LLMs are moving from chat to execution. Anthropic framed 2025 as “AI chat”, 2026 as Carla Courthial >>

when AI starts to do work, and 2027 as a step towards expert-level tasks; it also noted Research Analyst MLI (UK)